“Colorado rate increases are more than double that of inflation. It is a huge, massive jump.”
Premiums for home insurance policies are rising at double the pace of overall inflation in Colorado, and consumers are footing one of the biggest annual bills of any state, according to aThe insurance comparison website gathered information on what premiums users were facing when their home policies came up for renewal in May versus the same month a year earlier. Of the 25 states where enough data existed, the average increase was 12.1%. But in Colorado, the premium increases averaged 17.
“Colorado rate increases are more than double that of inflation. It is a huge, massive jump,” said Pat Howard, a licensed property and casualty insurance expert at Policygenius in New York City. Insurers have cited higher payouts because of more damaging hail storms and wildfires as a key driver of premium inflation. For example, thewhich is way beyond the normal fire season.
Insurers prefer to spread the costs of claim payouts over a wider area, and more catastrophic events are a factor behind why rates are rising so much in Colorado and other states, Howard said. But it is a little early for the Marshall fire to be factored into the premium base. A big driver of late has been what Howard calls the “elephant in the room” — replacement costs.
Home prices in Colorado have risen sharply since lockdown orders were lifted in 2020. As of May, they were going up more than 23% a year in metro Denver, per the S&P Case-Shiller Home Price indices. But what insurers look at more closely than a home’s market value are the costs to replace it. Costs for building materials and construction labor have skyrocketed since the pandemic because of supply-chain difficulties and worker shortages.
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